Just started doing interval training on the treadmill
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Hi all
I want to improve my overall fitness and lose my small beer belly. I have never really been into treadmills but for the last 3 weeks I have really enjoyed using them. So really I am not used to running much, I prefere swimming. I am not that unfit for the record. The first 2 weeks of the interval program and all was going well. I have been doing 1 min 5.5kmh walk and the run for 2 mins at 10.7kmh for 30 mins. However the last week I have been getting quite bad pain in both ankles when on the treadmill. So much so I have to stop. I dont get any lasting pain once I have stopped, just when on the treadmill. As I am not used to running is this just my ankles using muscles I dont really use or I am doing to much to soon and I need to build up first and maybe slow down. Any advice would be great. Thanks
I want to improve my overall fitness and lose my small beer belly. I have never really been into treadmills but for the last 3 weeks I have really enjoyed using them. So really I am not used to running much, I prefere swimming. I am not that unfit for the record. The first 2 weeks of the interval program and all was going well. I have been doing 1 min 5.5kmh walk and the run for 2 mins at 10.7kmh for 30 mins. However the last week I have been getting quite bad pain in both ankles when on the treadmill. So much so I have to stop. I dont get any lasting pain once I have stopped, just when on the treadmill. As I am not used to running is this just my ankles using muscles I dont really use or I am doing to much to soon and I need to build up first and maybe slow down. Any advice would be great. Thanks
Take it easy at first, and build up.
I do a mix of walk (5kmph) for 1 minute and then jog (13kmph) for 1 minute, and can manage to do that for a while (but I am quite unfit, before you say that doesnt sound very impressive!). And if you need an extra minutes breather, then do so. Eventually you can build up to a jog alternating with sprints, but when you get fully into it, you shouldnt be able to do it for than about 20 mins if you're trying hard enough (I wont even try that at the mo!).
I do a mix of walk (5kmph) for 1 minute and then jog (13kmph) for 1 minute, and can manage to do that for a while (but I am quite unfit, before you say that doesnt sound very impressive!). And if you need an extra minutes breather, then do so. Eventually you can build up to a jog alternating with sprints, but when you get fully into it, you shouldnt be able to do it for than about 20 mins if you're trying hard enough (I wont even try that at the mo!).
Make sure you have a decent pair of running trainers so that they are taking the impact properly and not transferring it through to your ankle.
Stretch properly before and after exercise. I used to get pain in my ankles along with my feet feeling numb after a while. Stretching properly solved this.
Definitely build up slowly on the interval training. When I started interval training I ran 1 minute at 7.5km and then 30 secs at 9.5km then go back to 7.5(but I am a short arse, you could probably run must faster than that). I found 20 minutes of this had a much bigger impact than running at a solid pace for the 20 mins.
Stretch properly before and after exercise. I used to get pain in my ankles along with my feet feeling numb after a while. Stretching properly solved this.
Definitely build up slowly on the interval training. When I started interval training I ran 1 minute at 7.5km and then 30 secs at 9.5km then go back to 7.5(but I am a short arse, you could probably run must faster than that). I found 20 minutes of this had a much bigger impact than running at a solid pace for the 20 mins.
Dibby said:
Instead of spending money on a gym membership, why not get out and about and run in the fresh air? You never know, freshish air might taste nicer than air conditioned sweaty gym air and could save you some money.
People always suggest this. I presume where they live the pavements are never icy, it never rains horizontally, theres certainly no snow, you don't suffer from hypothermia and the locals don't throw things at you/try to trip you/offer you a quicky for £5, or somebody called charlie for significantly more than £5. There's also no cars using the roads you need to cross and the pavement is as impact absorbing as the "board" of a treadmill. And you never feel a little twinge 2 miles away from the house, in the freezing rain, with no cash.If you can let me know where this place is I'd love to visit. Until then I'll take to using the local gym where it's always warm, people don't give you grief or run you over and the treadmill is better for my joints, and always stops near somewhere warm.
Munter said:
Dibby said:
Instead of spending money on a gym membership, why not get out and about and run in the fresh air? You never know, freshish air might taste nicer than air conditioned sweaty gym air and could save you some money.
People always suggest this. I presume where they live the pavements are never icy, it never rains horizontally, theres certainly no snow, you don't suffer from hypothermia and the locals don't throw things at you/try to trip you/offer you a quicky for £5, or somebody called charlie for significantly more than £5. There's also no cars using the roads you need to cross and the pavement is as impact absorbing as the "board" of a treadmill. And you never feel a little twinge 2 miles away from the house, in the freezing rain, with no cash.If you can let me know where this place is I'd love to visit. Until then I'll take to using the local gym where it's always warm, people don't give you grief or run you over and the treadmill is better for my joints, and always stops near somewhere warm.
20 minutes of cycling on an exercise bike in a stuffy gym full of ponces and gym bunnies watching myself sweat in a mirror to some generic doof doof music and I want to go home. 12 hours of cycling in the fresh air and I'm disappointed when the sun goes down and I have to go home. A bit of sideways rain and mud never killed anyone, it's character building.
Dibby said:
Munter said:
Dibby said:
Instead of spending money on a gym membership, why not get out and about and run in the fresh air? You never know, freshish air might taste nicer than air conditioned sweaty gym air and could save you some money.
People always suggest this. I presume where they live the pavements are never icy, it never rains horizontally, theres certainly no snow, you don't suffer from hypothermia and the locals don't throw things at you/try to trip you/offer you a quicky for £5, or somebody called charlie for significantly more than £5. There's also no cars using the roads you need to cross and the pavement is as impact absorbing as the "board" of a treadmill. And you never feel a little twinge 2 miles away from the house, in the freezing rain, with no cash.If you can let me know where this place is I'd love to visit. Until then I'll take to using the local gym where it's always warm, people don't give you grief or run you over and the treadmill is better for my joints, and always stops near somewhere warm.
20 minutes of cycling on an exercise bike in a stuffy gym full of ponces and gym bunnies watching myself sweat in a mirror to some generic doof doof music and I want to go home. 12 hours of cycling in the fresh air and I'm disappointed when the sun goes down and I have to go home. A bit of sideways rain and mud never killed anyone, it's character building.
swerni said:
Munter said:
Dibby said:
So use the membership money to drive out of the city, you could buy a lot of fuel with £30/ month and go somewhere nice.
Jesus H Christ! £85/ month!
85! Mines only £21. Jesus H Christ! £85/ month!
Edited by Dibby on Friday 26th February 14:27
We get a better class and volume of bunny
you should have seen them in the spin class this morning
You can't lean exercise bikes like you can a proper bike and they're all set up wrong with weird bars and wide unisex saddles (dripping with other people's arse sweat). I can't get on with them at all, it's like cycling in leg callipers
Firefoot said:
Make sure you have a decent pair of running trainers so that they are taking the impact properly and not transferring it through to your ankle.
Stretch properly before and after exercise. I used to get pain in my ankles along with my feet feeling numb after a while. Stretching properly solved this.
Definitely build up slowly on the interval training. When I started interval training I ran 1 minute at 7.5km and then 30 secs at 9.5km then go back to 7.5(but I am a short arse, you could probably run must faster than that). I found 20 minutes of this had a much bigger impact than running at a solid pace for the 20 mins.
Thats exactly what get...pain in both ankles and a numb feeling in the same area. I cut down today to 5K walk and 10K run and could only last 10 mins doing 1 min of each and the pain was bad. Odd thing is when I first started a few weeks ago there was no pain. Could this be my ankles getting used to me running properly for the first time in my life??Stretch properly before and after exercise. I used to get pain in my ankles along with my feet feeling numb after a while. Stretching properly solved this.
Definitely build up slowly on the interval training. When I started interval training I ran 1 minute at 7.5km and then 30 secs at 9.5km then go back to 7.5(but I am a short arse, you could probably run must faster than that). I found 20 minutes of this had a much bigger impact than running at a solid pace for the 20 mins.
I do interval training at my gym on a cross trainer, which even has an interval setting so it’s ideal. I tried it with a treadmill and it didn't feel very natural plus for me I think injury would be more likely.
I suspect the whole gym thinks I’m crazy but it’s like a drug, to me their crazy going to a gym for light exercise and not working up a sweat.
For intra-workout I’m using LG Science’s branch chained amino drink, which is probably the best tasting bcaa drink I’ve tasted.
Main reason I use the gym rather than home is that I’m dripping with sweat after interval training and I’d rather get cleaned up showered at the gym than at home.
I suspect the whole gym thinks I’m crazy but it’s like a drug, to me their crazy going to a gym for light exercise and not working up a sweat.
For intra-workout I’m using LG Science’s branch chained amino drink, which is probably the best tasting bcaa drink I’ve tasted.
Main reason I use the gym rather than home is that I’m dripping with sweat after interval training and I’d rather get cleaned up showered at the gym than at home.
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